the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) developed by Sabina Alkire and James Foster is a widely recognized measure of poverty that goes beyond income-based indicators. The MPI assesses poverty based on multiple dimensions, such as health, education, and standard of living. It identifies individuals who are simultaneously deprived in multiple aspects of their lives, providing a more comprehensive understanding of poverty. The MPI assigns a deprivation score to each individual and aggregates these scores to calculate the overall poverty rate. It is a valuable tool for policymakers and researchers to design targeted interventions and monitor progress in poverty reduction efforts.
| Global MPI – Dimensions, Indicators, Deprivation Cutoffs, and Weights | |||||
| X | Dimension | Indicator | Variable | Weight | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Health | Nutrition | nutrition | 0.16666667 | Any person under 70 years of age for whom there is nutritional information is undernourished. |
| 2 | Health | Child mortality | child_mortality | 0.16666667 | A child under 18 has died in the household in the five-year period preceding the survey. |
| 3 | Education | Years of schooling | year_schooling | 0.16666667 | No eligible household member has completed six years of schooling. |
| 4 | Education | School attendance | school_attendance | 0.16666667 | Any school-aged child is not attending school up to the age at which he/she would complete class 8. |
| 5 | Living Standards | Cooking fuel | cooking_fuel | 0.05555556 | A household cooks using solid fuel, such as dung, agricultural crop, shrubs, wood, charcoal, or coal. |
| 6 | Living Standards | Sanitation | sanitation | 0.05555556 | The household has unimproved or no sanitation facility or it is improved but shared with other households. |
| 7 | Living Standards | Drinking water | drinking_water | 0.05555556 | The household's source of drinking water is not safe or safe drinking water is a 30-minute or longer walk from home, roundtrip. |
| 8 | Living Standards | Electricity | electricity | 0.05555556 | The household has no electricity. |
| 9 | Living Standards | Housing | housing | 0.05555556 | The household has inadequate housing materials in any of the three components: floor, roof, or walls. |
| 10 | Living Standards | Assets | assets | 0.05555556 | The household does not own more than one of these assets: radio, TV, telephone, computer, animal cart, bicycle, motorbike, or refrigerator, and does not own a car or truck. |
| Source: Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U. and Suppa, N. (2020). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): 2020 revision’, OPHI MPI Methodological Note 49, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. | |||||
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